An Illinois federal judge has certified a class of roughly 1.2 million users of Amazon's Alexa in litigation accusing the e-commerce giant of unlawfully collecting their biometric voice data, allowing two people to serve as representatives for those in the state for whom Amazon allegedly created voiceprints.
An Illinois federal judge has certified a class of roughly 1.2 million users of Amazon's Alexa in litigation accusing the e-commerce giant of unlawfully collecting their biometric voice data, allowing two people to serve as representatives for those in the state for whom Amazon allegedly created voiceprints.
An Illinois federal judge sanctioned Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. on Tuesday over the company's failure to preserve text message data from more than 50 company-issued cellphones for discovery in multidistrict litigation targeting an allegedly illegal advertising price-fixing scheme.
The Seventh Circuit pressed pause Wednesday on an "overbroad" injunction a Chicago federal judge entered to curb allegedly excessive force federal immigration officials have used against press and peaceful protesters, but cautioned the parties not to read too deeply into its holding.
Cannabis giant Cresco Labs has, for now, beaten a proposed class action accusing it and its subsidiaries of mislabeling their cannabis oil to get around Illinois THC potency limits, after a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the consumer's suit, at best, points to a mistake in law, and not an instance of fraud.
Only the U.S. secretary of labor can sue to enforce a federal ban on employers spending money to promote candidates for union office, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, upholding an Illinois federal judge's dismissal of litigation filed by a Chicago teachers union that attempted to enforce the ban.
GTCR BC Holdings LLC wants the Federal Trade Commission to rethink its in-house challenge to a medical coatings supplier merger after an Illinois federal judge refused a temporary block and the FTC opted not to appeal that rejection.
Greystar Management Services LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Tuesday.
Soup giant Campbell's has asked an Illinois federal judge to throw out a $17.3 million jury verdict that found it had infringed patents related to gravity-operated racks in grocery aisles, saying the racks "indisputably" contain unpatentable elements.
The nation's five largest egg producers have been using avian flu as a cover for their yearslong conspiracy to artificially inflate their prices without fear of being undercut in the market, a proposed class of consumers claimed Tuesday in Illinois federal court.
Consumers embroiled in a dispute with several online casino game operators have pressed an Illinois federal judge to reconsider his order compelling arbitration, saying he looked to the wrong law when determining whether an arbitration agreement was void.
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, McDermott Will & Schulte LLP and Dechert LLP are among the law firms following the lead of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on year-end associate bonuses this week, with at least five large firms matching the market leader within a day of Cravath's Tuesday announcement.
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP must pay $3.7 million in attorney fees to a healthcare tech company that won on malpractice claims against the firm in 2024 after six years of litigation and an eight-day bench trial, a New Jersey state judge has ordered.
A Fifth Circuit judge denounced the judge who penned a federal court order blocking Texas' newly redrawn congressional map, saying in a Wednesday opinion the order blocking the redistricting amounts to the "most blatant exercise of judicial activism" he had ever seen.
U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan acknowledged Wednesday that the full grand jury in the James Comey case never saw or voted on the final version of the indictment that was handed up to the court in the case. An attorney for Comey said the clarification was grounds for dismissal.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said on Wednesday that after a federal judge in his state resigned in disgrace last year, he decided he had to revamp his selection process for judicial nominees.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Wednesday urged the Second Circuit to allow it to keep a $4 million advance payment retainer from the since-convicted former CEO of a bankrupt cybersecurity company, but the law firm conceded it should have clarified its rights after the government sought an asset freeze.
A Delaware federal court has disqualified Latham & Watkins LLP from representing the creator of a sleep apnea implant in its patent dispute after the firm served as counsel to the rival's underwriters, saying the "appearance of impropriety is glaring."
If the Senate does not take up a bill to repeal a provision in the government funding package allowing senators investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages, a Republican House member is already making contingency plans.
A bipartisan collection of current and former government officials has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, claiming the precedent has roots that date back to the country's founding and reflects key separation of powers principles.
